DDCPoetry

 Poem Found Here:   "Swarm" by Jessica Traynor After reading the poem a couple of time, I wondered what "Swarm" means.  Of course, there's the dictionary definition ; however, even in reading the definition there's a negative connotation: swarm of locusts, swarm of meteors .  I think this poem plays with this negative connotation as the tone of the poem to form maybe empathy at the end. The poem starts out with a command: Search for them in the canopy, among meadow grasses, you won't spot them; the thousands of bees Even though the speaker asks the reader to search for something so numerous, this swarm, this thousands of bees is not able to be viewed by the reader.  There's a sort of mocking aspect of not being to see them as it seems so obvious to the speaker at how they change normal scenery to the surreal: "that unzip the air, / follow the day's weft, // that rip the silence like cloth."  Note how the descriptions of the bee comes in...